On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Chris Buechler <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 11:34 AM, John Busch <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I think a catch would be that the college has a captive portal on >> their WiFi. It redirects to an intranet page requiring credentials >> prior to allowing traffic out to the Internet. > > As for how to keep the connection through the portal up, that's hard > to say. Depends on how it's configured. Worst case, you manually log > into it as needed. If it keeps active connections up indefinitely, > send a constant ping or something through it. If it has a hard cutoff, > script curl or something to log into it periodically as needed. >
You do need to be careful and make sure that you are not violating any of your university's network acceptable use policies. Many universities may ban you for accessing a campus wireless network when you are not on campus. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
